"Margolnick" LP out now! https://ffm.to/margolnick

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.

ZIKALI is a collective of composers and sound designers working on severals visual projects. 

more...

Travailler avec le collectif Zikali, c’est disposer d’un très large panel d’esthétiques sonores et musicales pour donner vie à vos projets. Mais c’est surtout l’opportunité de créer un univers original, une identité sonore sur-mesure pour transmettre vos valeurs et raconter votre “histoire”.
Au sein de chaque création audiovisuelle, nous considérons le sound design et la musique comme des vecteurs primordiaux de sens et d’émotion.

CHPTRS // Cinematic Indie-Pop.
The duo (Josh Auer, Jerad Atherton) have a sound developed by years of touring with bands, writing for television, and producing other artists' records. Not held back by genre, their backgrounds in folk, rock, pop, and cinematic film music shine through their personal but relatable songs.

I am a musician with a variety of developed skills.

Film composer

I compose and record music in a variety of styles for commercials and film, from popular to orchestral. I work regularly with A2f Pictures and recently had a score commissioned by Egg Music. I have developed music for many commercials and for three short films.

Cellist

I appeared as guest solo cellist with orchestra at the age of 14. I made my conducting debut as a 17 year old. I am extremely comfortable performing for and speaking before large crowds. I have performed internationally, from major venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York City to Shostakovich Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. I have also performed in the countries of Chile, Czech Republic, China, Taiwan and Japan.

Conductor

I have served as Music Director and Conductor of professional, university/college and youth orchestras, including the Oshkosh Symphony, the Columbus Ballet, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Columbus State University, the Youth Orchestra of Greater Columbus and the New World Youth Orchestras.

Educator

I have taught at the university level at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Columbus State University, Earlham College and Eastern Illinois University.

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.



Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011),



Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.



Dustin’s rock background - primarily with Bella Union’s “dream-pop” outfit Devics – has yielded an unassuming, perceptive approach to composing modern classical pieces. Inspired by, among others, Arvo Part,  Philip Glass, Hans Otte, John Luther Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Gavin Bryars, there is no lack of articulation or academic musicality in Dustin’s work, but there is also none of the aloofness or detachment that is so readily perceived around contemporary classical music. This can perhaps be attributed to the environments in which Dustin has worked - Lumiere is full of those rare elements of life shared by both vibrant cities and lush countrysides: colour, both organic and rich, sensorial intrigue and a deep awareness of space. Or perhaps it is a product of Dustin’s synaesthesia, a condition he first noticed around the time of his performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum for their Kandisnky retrospective and 50th anniversary gala. Able to visualize his compositions as vividly as a painter might see his own work, Dustin’s expressiveness is beyond compare.



Lumiere will be Dustin’s third solo full-length, following Bella Union albums released in 2004 and 2006 respectively (Piano Solos vol. 1 and Piano Solos vol. 2). These two records were originally opportunity for Dustin to express a non-Devics creative streak: gently and privately pieced together piano suites written and recorded on a beautifully-restored 1920’s Sabel piano in his Italian farmhouse. The compositions, however, gradually grew into fully-formed solo pieces as Dustin’s ambitions and designs developed. The path, of course, would eventually lead him to Lumiere’s majestic, swooning ensemble arrangements and a focus-shift away from the piano as his work’s primary timbre without losing any of the affection for the instrument that bore his first two records.



A sublime solo live album - entitled Vorleben – will be released by FatCat / 130701 in June.

Japanese composer, pianist and producer based in Los Angeles.

Hi.
We are Sign/Post Sound.
We make music.

dadda82 is following